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Roe Jan Rancher
Roe Jan Rancher
@olsenoid.bsky.social
Architect. Progressive. Anti-violence, anti-war, anti-MIC. Not ashamed of my Ivy League degree. Triggered by hypocrisy and censorship. I ❤️my family: human and 4-legged. 🏳️🌈
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Replying to @joshuajfriedman.com
I don’t think non-lawyers can appreciate how remarkable it is that the leading conservative intellectual voices of the 90s and 2000s - Judge Luttig, Judge Wilkinson, Walter Olson, Ben Ginsburg, etc. - are being this outspoken against a Republican president’s abuses. Huge kudos to all of them.
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We had the reporter on tonight; @maddow has the whistleblower
There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:
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Replying to @mattgertz.bsky.social
“With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged” - Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation (1991)
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To me, an old white lady, this is the most alarming development to come out of the current administration. And there’s lots of competition for that superlative. What do we have here if we don’t have our freedom?
We have got to stand against tyranny. None of what is happening to Mahmoud Khalil is moral, ethical, or legal.
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Ontario Raises Electricity Price by 25% for Minnesota, Michigan and New York www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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This is extremely, extremely bad. Our legal system cannot function if the govt retaliates — and if courts allow it to retaliate — against lawyers who take matters the govt disfavors.
NEW: President Trump moved Tuesday to punish a law firm for providing pro bono legal services to Jack Smith as he prepared to face a potential investigation from the Trump administration. He is stripping security clearnces and govt funding from the firm. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
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PSA: many younger boomers might not have been immunized against measles. There is a booster available.
ICYMI: There's a measles outbreak happening right now in west Texas. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases in the world. President Trump's plans to cut thousands of jobs from the CDC—coupled with Secretary Kennedy's anti-vaccine agenda—is disastrous for us all.
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What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.
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Where you at Dems ? You fighting to get them far better severance or going to ignore them, and all others in similar circumstances?
Termination notices going out this afternoon to more than 300 employees of the National Cancer Institute. Access likely ends today. Four weeks paid leave and that’s it. Strong power move for Team Cancer.
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